Posts tagged accidents

• How many people must die before you put down the phone?

  Miranda Miller | April 30, 2012 2:40 PM | 2 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Three thousand people died in distracted driving accidents across the country last year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In Ohio alone, distracted driving killed...

• Subcontractor crushed to death at Kent construction site

  Amber Scott | March 29, 2012 12:28 PM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Barberton subcontractor Russell Hirschfelt, 49, died Tuesday after being crushed between a backhoe and a stack of concrete slabs. The Lockhart Concrete construction worker was walking between the...

• Automobile Accident or Defective Automobile? What to Look for and When to Investigate an Auto Defect

  Nick DiCello | June 04, 2010 3:10 PM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Thousands of motor vehicle collisions occur every year. More than43,000 people died in car crashes/accidents in 2005 alone. Most often the motorists involved in a car crash seek to determine who...

• Two Akron Residents Killed in Turnpike Vehicle Crash(2)

  Spangenberg Shibley & Liber | June 20, 2007 9:29 PM | 1 CommentAkron, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Two Akron residents were killed Tuesday in a two-vehicle crash on the Ohio Turnpike in Brecksville. According to police reports both vehicles were in the middle lane going eastbound when the car and truck collided. Naushad M. Khimji, 55, and his passenger, Fatema N. Khimji, 22, died when their 1992 Honda Accord collided with a semi-truck just before 3:30 p.m. The driver of the truck suffered...

• School Bus Injuries

  Spangenberg Shibley & Liber | November 06, 2006 11:33 AM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Recent national data, shows that school bus accidents cause more injuries than had been believed. The data establishes that 17,000 children each year are sent to emergency rooms due to school bus related accidents.While the number of children who are injured may seem small compared to the number of children who travel on school buses each year-some 23.5 million-the number causes concern and...

• $20 Million Verdict Against Allstate for Bad Faith

  Scott Smith | October 06, 2006 12:01 PM | 1 CommentColumbus, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An Indiana jury determined Allstate Insurance Company committed bad faith in failing to pay a man for losses due to injuries and damage to his car following a car crash and awarded the man $20 Million. The jury decided Ted Fields was in bad hands after applying for property damage and medical benefits under his Allstate policy following a car crash. Fields, age 50, who is now a retired...

• Whiplash May Not Be Whiplash

  Spangenberg Shibley & Liber | August 28, 2006 9:18 AM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Too many injured motorists give their auto accident cases away.Motorists who are injured in a minor or mild car accident tend to think that the neck or back pain they exprience after the crash is "just a little whiplash". Based upon that incorrect but hopeful self-diagnosis, they settle their injury claim for next to nothing with the eager-to-help insurance adjuster.Ever wonder why the...

• Car-Buggy Accident Kills Amish Man

  Spangenberg Shibley & Liber | June 29, 2006 12:03 PM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An Amish man who apparently fell asleep while driving his buggy died Saturday when the buggy failed to stop at a stop sign and was hit by an oncoming car. The accident occurred approximately 40...

• Getting hit by a car was a bad way to start my weekend ... and probably hers, too

  Miranda Miller | May 04, 2012 10:15 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Crossing East 14th and Lakeside in Cleveland each day on my walk to my new job, I wondered when I was going to get hit by someone too eager to turn right on red. After a few close calls, I...

• High-speed motorcycle riders at higher risk for wrongful death | Ohio motorcycle accident lawyers

  Chuck Boyk | February 20, 2009 6:24 PM | 0 CommentsSandusky, OH Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Our Ohio motorcycle accident lawyers see the devastating effects that fatal motorcycle accidents can have a family and their community. If you are going to ride a motorcycle, do so responsibly. Mind...